EnglishThe patognomonic peculiarity of female neurosis allows the writers of the end of XIX centu... more EnglishThe patognomonic peculiarity of female neurosis allows the writers of the end of XIX century to use it in order to present the ambiguous dichotomy between health and malady, representing neurotic woman as quintessence of an abnormal condition. Analysing the female characters in Tarchetti’s Fosca and in Fogazzaro’s Malombra, the intention is to underline the way they approach female neurotic disorder in accordance with their contemporany medical/scientific culture, anticipating psychoanalytic instances, and furthermore focusing on the common declination, inside the two novels, of the pathology in terms of degeneration and consequently about the moral conception of the neurotic disease. italianoLa specificita patognomonica della nevrosi femminile permette agli scrittori attivi nelle ultime decadi del XIX secolo di servirsene al fine di esporre l’ambigua dicotomia tra salute e malattia, ritraendo la donna nevrotica quale quintessenza di una condizione anomala e abnorme. Analizza...
EnglishThe patognomonic peculiarity of female neurosis allows the writers of the end of XIX centu... more EnglishThe patognomonic peculiarity of female neurosis allows the writers of the end of XIX century to use it in order to present the ambiguous dichotomy between health and malady, representing neurotic woman as quintessence of an abnormal condition. Analysing the female characters in Tarchetti’s Fosca and in Fogazzaro’s Malombra, the intention is to underline the way they approach female neurotic disorder in accordance with their contemporany medical/scientific culture, anticipating psychoanalytic instances, and furthermore focusing on the common declination, inside the two novels, of the pathology in terms of degeneration and consequently about the moral conception of the neurotic disease. italianoLa specificita patognomonica della nevrosi femminile permette agli scrittori attivi nelle ultime decadi del XIX secolo di servirsene al fine di esporre l’ambigua dicotomia tra salute e malattia, ritraendo la donna nevrotica quale quintessenza di una condizione anomala e abnorme. Analizza...
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